Using gimptool on macOS?

[ChasBelov]

I have an old plug-in script I wrote for an earlier version of GIMP. I want to port it to GIMP 2.10, the current Mac version, and re-code it in C or C++, whichever is used for GIMP plug-ins, to avoid the on-screen flashing it causes when using a scripting language.

I am getting stuck at doing a "Hello world" script as suggested by How to write a GIMP plug-in by Dave Neary https://developer.gimp.org/writing-a-plu...index.html as I can't even get that far.

Specifically, when I try to run gimptool-2.0 in Terminal, I get a message that the command is not found. Additionally, gimptool also gets command not found.

I'm guessing I'm missing a path, but I can't find the appropriate path. If I search my hard drive for files with gimptool in the name, I find gimptool.c and gimptool.h as well as a bunch of gimptool[something].c and gimptool[something].h, but no gimptool or gimptool-2.0 binary file.

Is there a guide somewhere to getting started from a GIMP 2.10 installation to the point where I have an executable gimptool-2.0 binary file, specifically on Mac OS?

I have Xcode installed and expect to relearn C or C++ enough to write the plug-in.

[rich2005]

Very few Mac users come to this forum

I suggest asking for information on https://discuss.pixls.us/ There is already one there that has just popped up again

https://discuss.pixls.us/t/development-o...acos/15017

[ChasBelov]

Thank you for the reference. I'll dive into that thread. Alas, it doesn't seem to refer to my current question.

If any Mac C GIMP plug-in developer does happen to see this post, a referral to a getting started how to that starts at the very start would be sufficient. I tried searching on "install gimptools" and "install" "gimptools" and the only results tell me how to use gimptools to install plug-ins, not how to install gimptools itself.

[rich2005]

Never tried this, might work
https://www.onworks.net/programs/gimptool-2-0-online

[ChasBelov]

Thank you. I'll check it out.

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Thank you again. I'm hesitant to use a free service that hides its whois information as it gives me no way to authenticate them as trustworthy for running or creating executables.

[Ofnuts]

(10-13-2020, 08:36 PM)ChasBelov Wrote: Thank you. I'll check it out.

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Thank you again. I'm hesitant to use a free service that hides its whois information as it gives me no way to authenticate them as trustworthy for running or creating executables.

If whois says the site's owner is Gerunty Naipacem(*) in Outer Mongolia, you don't really know either, do you? It appears the site is EU based, and EU privacy regulations require this information to be hidden to the general audience (this is also true for gimp-forum.net, BTW).

(*) This person doesn't exist, this is a synthesized name from an anonymized database that was one of my test cases in a former professional project. Due to all the strange cases in that DB entry s/he was some kind of celebrity in the project (we had a "Gerunty status" during dailies and as we had an expecting father in the project we campaigned for naming the baby "Gerunty", touting the genderless advantage of the name).

[ChasBelov]

Thank you for that information. I don't want to go off-topic here so I'll take the EU discussion to another board. It's less an issue for gimp-forum as I'm not uploading or downloading executables.

I'd prefer to do a local compile rather than having to off-ship my work to a site I don't trust.